1,567 new positive COVID-19 infections in Telangana

Telangana reported 1,567 new Covid-19 infections and nine fatalities on Thursday, taking the overall toll to 447 and the total positive cases to 50,826.

According to the daily health bulletin, 1,661 persons have recovered in the last 24 hours, which has pushed the recoveries to 39,327 with a recovery rate of 77.3 percent while the number of active cases as on Thursday in the State was 11,052.

Out of the 1567 new Covid-19



infections, areas under GHMC reported 662 positive cases while 213 cases were reported from Rangareddy and 33 from Medchal.

Health authorities conducted tests for 13,367 samples out of which 1567 have tested positive with a positivity rate of 11.7 per cent. The mortality rate in the State continues to remain less than one percent. Till now, the health authorities have conducted tests on 3,22,326 samples with a cumulative positivity rate of 15.8 per cent.